[Foundation-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Wed Oct 10 02:23:07 UTC 2007


On 10/9/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > Those are great stats, thanks for your work! I'm not surprised to see a
> > decline, personally.
>
> Hey! In what kind of new-speak is a *daily* *increase* of 140,000
> somethings or 2,000 somethings, or 7,000 something a *decline*?
>
When describing what has increased requires using the word "ever".

Home sales decline in November, or number of home sales ever made
increases at a lower rate in November?



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